Former Lok Sabha MP from Assam Ramen Deka appointed Governor of Chhattisgarh.
Former Deputy CM of Tripura from the BJP Jishnu Dev Varma has been appointed Governor of Congress-ruled Telangana.
Senior BJP leader Santosh Gangwar, who was not given the ticket to contest from Bareilly in the recent Lok Sabha elections after having won the seat six consecutive times, has been appointed Governor of Jharkhand.
He is an OBC from the Kurmi caste, which seems to have veered away from the BJP in UP and Bihar in the parliamentary polls.
Senior BJP leader Santosh Gangwar, who was not given the ticket to contest from Bareilly in the recent Lok Sabha elections after having won the seat six consecutive times, has been appointed Governor of Jharkhand.
He is an OBC from the Kurmi caste, which seems to have veered away from the BJP in UP and Bihar in the parliamentary polls.
BJP leader from Rajasthan O P Mathur, a former member of the Rajya Sabha, has been appointed Governor of Sikkim.
Former Lok Sabha member from Karnataka C H Vijayshankar, who quit the BJP to join the Congress and rejoined the BJP in 2019, has been appointed Governor of Meghalaya.
The President has accepted the resignation of Banwarilal Purohit as Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Union Territory of Chandigarh.
K Kailashnathan, a retired IAS officer who served as chief principal secretary to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat from 2013 to 2014, has been appointed Lt Governor of Puducherry.
Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Assam, has been appointed as Governor of Punjab and also Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Kataria, a veteran BJP leader, was a minister in Rajasthan earlier.
C P Radhakrishnan, Governor of Jharkhand with additional charge of Telangana, will now be Governor of Maharashtra, a crucial state for the BJP.
Twice elected to the Lok Sabha from Coimbatore, Radhakrishnan is a former Tamil Nadu BJP president.
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